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The Historical Sew Fortnightly Challenge #15 is our first colour challenge* for the year, and I’m easing you into it slowly, picking a colour that has lots of options for really easy makes (you can never have too many chemises…) and has appeared in every possible period. White has carried many connotations as a colour, from defining culture and social boundaries in Ancient Egypt (only foreigners and those connected to the afterlife wore colour), to denoting status (white was often an expensive colour to produce and maintain), to implying purity, or simply cleanliness. For this challenge ‘white’ is defined as anything in the white family – from brightest white, through to ivory and cream and all the shades between. Whether you make a simple chemise or an elaborate ballgown, your garment should be predominantly white, though it may have touches of other colours. Here are some of my favourite white garments, from the sublime to the ridiculous. I’ve posted a lot of fabulously over the top garments, but, of course, little accessories and undergarments are …
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You know how sometimes the best laid plans are waylaid by life? I had every intention of finishing this bonnet before the HSF deadline of yesterday, but along the way got side tracked by life and made conscious choices to do other things with my time instead of bonnet-ing. Oh well, it happens to the…
As I write this, New Zealand is deep in the grip of winter, and my life is about layers of merino knits, warm scarves, fur-lined gloves, and heavy coats. It’s good weather to be inside with the heater running, curled under a blanket, handsewing. By the time challenge #20 comes along in October, the weather in New Zealand will be warming up, and those of you above the equator will be cooling down, looking towards your own winter. The midpoint of the seasons seems a good point for a challenge focused on outerwear: the layers that get added on to your basic outfit to protect you, and it, from inclement weather. The Historical Sew Fortnightly Challenge #20: Outerwear (due October 7th) is all about capes, camails and crespins, scarves, sweaters and spencers, burnouses, balmacaans and bosom friends, muffs, mantles and mittens, pardessuses, pelisses and pelerines. In other words, anything you put over everything else. To get you thinking about it, here are a few of my favourite outerwear inspiration images: Isn’t this hood fantastic? Isn’t …
Jak zapowiedziałam, round gown. I tak, zanim stwierdzicie że szyję bardzo szybko to przyznam się, że poprzedni post opublikowałam z tygodnio...
For the July Historical Sew Monthly (previously Fortnightly) I wanted to make a hat / headdress to go with my new green sideless surcote. Luckily, I also had some leftover fabric, so was comfortable making something somewhat 'matchy' without being super-matchy, as the paintings didn't really support that. Background inspiration I started with paintings from…
Guess what: I made a new hat! The Historical Sew Monthly's August Challenge is "Heirlooms & Heritage" and asked to "re-create a garment...
I'm a bit behind on finishing and documenting some Historical Sew Fortnightly challenges so let's get caught up! The Challenge: #19...
Do you know how long it has been since I’ve done a HSF inspiration post? Long enough that I’m now two challenges behind! Anyway, catching up to do! Per popular vote, the theme of the HSF ’14 Challenge #22, due Monday 1 December, is ‘Gentlemen’: Make a historical item for a gentlemen, or a ladies item inspired by/borrowed from menswear. I am just overwhelmed with ideas! There are so many fantastic things I could make, either for Mr D (I live in hope…) or as menswear or menswear inspired things for me! Here are a few bits of manly fashions that amuse and attract me: Medieval stirrup stockings? Of course! Obviously, the actual menswear depicted in Lotto’s painting is pretty fantastic (those stockings! Those slashed shoes!), but Saint Lucia’s gown, with its slashed sleeves and bodice, is also menswear inspired (probably), as slashing was said to have become a fad after the slashed effect of mens clothing after a battle. Is there anything not to love about Barocci’s young man’s outfit? That fabric! Those buttons! …
I’ve been having trouble announcing the HSF challenges in a logical way, and keeping up with inspiration posts for the upcoming challenges. Solutions? Do them together as one announcement post at the 8 challenges ahead mark! Here then is the HSF Challenge #13: Lace and Lacings, due 1 July 2013 (NZ time). Lacing is one of the simplest and oldest forms of fastening a garment, eminently practical, and occasionally decorative. Lace has been one of the most valuable and desirable textiles for centuries, legislated, coveted, at times worth more than its weight in gold, passed down from one garment to the next over centuries. Elaborate and delicate it is eminently decorative, and rarely practical. Celebrate the practicality of lacing, and the decorative frivolity of lace, with a garment that laces or has lace trim, or both. Here are some ideas to get you inspired:
This is it! The second to last challenge to be posted! I was a little stuck on this challenge, as all my ideas were either too elaborate and demanding for such a busy time of year, and for the end of a marathon, or too similar to the challenges around it. So I opened the suggestions up to popular opinion on the HSF facebook group. Clearly you guys weren’t too worried about ‘too elaborate’, as the second most popular suggestion was ‘Copy a Painting’, but the slightly more restrained ‘One yard/metre’ suggestion won out in the end (Make something in under 3 hours was also very popular, which had me a bit worried. If it ended up taking longer, did you fail the challenge?). So, for Challenge #25, due 16 December, make an item that takes one metre or less fabric (I went with one metre, rather than one yard/or metre to be consistent). So what takes less than 1m of fabric?. Lot’s of things I’m sure! I’ve thought of : 1920s & ’30s tap …
The theme for the Historical Sew Monthly Challenge #9 is Brown: make something in any shade of brown. Brown is not generally my favourite colour, but I’m getting quite ambitious about this challenge, and have actually gotten very excited as I’ve researched it, so I may come around to brown yet! And I’ve found so many beautiful things in finding pieces for the inspiration post! Brown should be an easy one for everyone to do, because brown has been such a popular colour throughout history: there is almost no period, no people, no rank or station that hasn’t worn brown. Hopefully there will be entries to represent all sorts of periods, places, levels of stations, and all shades of brown! And now, for some inspiration… True browns are less common in Medieval illustrations than they were in Medieval clothing, simply because the illustrators went for bright shades for visual effect, and coloured illuminations are more likely to depict the upper classes, where brighter colours were a status symbol. Plus, some colours have faded to brown …
At long last, my very first Regency cap is finished. Well, in fact, I completed it last weekend, just in time for the challenge. Now, I finally get to share it with you. As this project was based on my own pattern, you will also get to read a little about how I put it…
When I first posted the Historical Sew Fortnightly I promised to post my favourite item for each challenge. And then the HSF got so big that I’ve spent so much more time than I had planned on organising and administering it and I ran out of time to post about favourites. To make this up, here is a quick round up of my favourites for the first 5 challenges (plus a bonus for the bonus challenge). It was REALLY hard to pick favourites – there are so many amazing things that have been produced, and such a range of periods, experience levels, and personal taste. I’ve chosen the items I thought best represent the spirit of the Historical Sew Fortnightly; the quest to explore history, raise our skill levels and standard, stretch ourselves (or sometimes just get something done, rather than just procrastinating); and the spirit of the individual challenge. Inevitably there are some projects that I adored that I just haven’t been able to post about. I didn’t purposely try to pick different seamstresses …
So I know its a bit late but I only found the material and had the idea for the dress a few weeks ago. Its my striped regency dress (whic...
As I stated before, I am in "need" of a new Titanic wardrobe. I had some really neat pink fabric in my stash that I was wanting to use. ...
Gosh, time flies! It does not seem a fortnight since I wrote the last inspiration post for the HSF! Things come around quickly! This particular challenge, #20: Alternative Universe (due Sat 1 Nov, because hey, Halloween is the day before and look, sometimes I can plan!) is quite exciting, because it’s the one challenge of the year where doesn’t require you to be properly historical. The brief is simple: make something from an alternative universe, that shows elements of costume history within our universe. With the Alternative Universe challenge we’re exploring all the ways in which history has influenced fantasy, and all the ways in which we’ve imagined the world would look if events had gone differently, or all the ways in which we would dress if we simply lived in another world, with another set of rules and history and species. There are so many choices to pick from. There are realms from literature: Middle Earth, Narnia, Westeros & Essos, Damar, Hogwarts, Diskworld, Oz, Barsoom, Dinotopia, Earthsea, and Neverland, to name just a few! …
This is a rather late Historical Sew Fortnightly, for Challenge #14 Paisley & Plaid which ran in early August, but I *just* finished it....
